Why should you choose it? Because it has good technical specifications:
- 256Wh Battery
- DC Output 300W Inverter peak 600W
- DC Charge 360Watt peak fully charged 1 hour
- AC input 60Watt USB-C
- Solar Input 100Watt max XT60 connection max 30V.
- XT60-MC4 Adapter
- Car Charger Max Input 8A
- Excellent App connection with Bluetooth WiFi
How can you charge it?
It can be charged with USB C at 60Watt and this specific port provides 60Watt. It can also be charged with solar panels up to a maximum of 110 Watt. It has a power cord that draws up to 360-370 Watt from the power grid of your home or elsewhere.
What can you use it for?
It is a Back Up Power Solution with 300 Watt sustained power and 600 Watt Peak Starting Power (for starting electric motors, e.g. refrigerator). It supports your provider's router for internet access and a charging base for a landline phone, charging your device and your mobile phone (5000 mAh) for approximately 7 hours.
In an LG refrigerator-freezer, as soon as there is a power outage, if you connect it immediately, it will not take long to lose cooling. It maintains operation for about 2 hours.
It is also very good for use as a UPS for your desktop computer, just set the maximum charging level to 85% from the application on your mobile phone, so it is not constantly at 100%.
Ideal choice for a caravan, boat, Home on Wheels, or camping off-grid.
It does not support electric eye ceramic cookware, only magnetic induction (requires specific cookware).
It has USB A ports and 12 Volt ports.
In terms of what it is and the quality of the product as an all-in-one device, it is Value for Money.
It has a management application on your mobile phone, which is great, and it also does Software Updates.
It can be used with CPAP Machines and other portable respiratory support devices with an integrated air compressor.
For example, it can comfortably support a patient with a CPAP Machine for 8 hours at the maximum air supply (level 6)... the second batteries in such medical portable devices cost around €500 + VAT and last for 2 hours, while this proposal here is Value for Money at €299 and 8 hours of operation... plus, afterwards, you have an additional 2 hours of fully charged battery in your device.
You can remove the portable battery from the device you are using to breathe and have it in your pocket or in your car fully charged at 100%, and have it connected to this ECOFLOW device, receiving direct 12 Volt power normally until you deplete the ecoflow battery (6-8 hours).
It charges with a wall socket in 1 hour and via USB C in 8 hours with a charger and cable that can provide 60 Watt sustained power. It can also be charged from a car cigarette lighter, which is included in the packaging and connects to the rear port designed for solar panels, up to 8 Amps.
It has a fan that, when operating at maximum, will not let you sleep if you have it next to your bedside table.
Attention!
In the MSDS (Material Data Safe Sheet) provided by the manufacturing factory in China, it is explicitly stated that this device CANNOT be taken on an airplane, neither in the cabin nor in checked luggage. IATA allows a maximum of 100 Watt/hours for PowerBank batteries and laptop batteries per passenger, both in the cabin and in checked luggage. This specific Power Station has a capacity of 326 Watt/hours, which is more than three times the legal limit.
In plain English, during the flight, due to the lack of oxygen in the luggage compartment and the high atmospheric pressure, the batteries will increase in temperature and catch fire... even though they are LIFEPO4 LFP technology, which means they start a dangerous chain reaction called Thermal Runaway.
No train, ship, or airplane crew is trained to successfully extinguish such a fire. The only successful way to extinguish it is to quickly wrap the Ecoflow in a fire blanket... Depriving it of oxygen from the atmosphere, but... The chain reaction of Thermal Runaway inside its battery produces its own oxygen. So, as a second step, you take it as it is and submerge it either in a water-filled pit (covering it completely) in the countryside outdoors or in a preferably fire-resistant metal container made of titanium, for example, not aluminum, and let the burning ECOFLOW remain there for at least 9-10 calendar days until all the stored electrical energy is fully depleted and it no longer spontaneously ignites new fire sources. At least in Norway, with the same chemistry and technology batteries LIFEPO4 LPF, the local firefighting forces use this strategy. It is not a matter of risk-taking... You must know, apart from the benefits and risks, how to protect the people around you and the foreign property that you may potentially damage. Knowledge is power.
After one week of use, we were fully satisfied.
Update after one month of use: everything is fine, it doesn't heat up even if you push it.
It emits a clean sine wave and has a switch-over time of 40ms.
It is also very good for use as a UPS, just set the maximum charging level to 85% from the application so that it is not constantly at 100%.
It does not have a bypass to provide power when the electricity goes out... You connect the Ecoflow to the power and then your power strip with PCs and other devices on the socket, it has the ECOFLOW for use and you get power from the battery, not from the wall outlet. That's it.
I hope in the future the price will drop or they will release a model with 20 or 50 or 100 Watts with LIFEPO4 so I can buy it at a price of around 100 euros, but with 4 outlets to keep phones, modems, and other devices powered on, even if they don't have a port for solar panels, purely as a micro UPS solution